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<td class="v">1:1</td>
<td>The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.</td>
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<td class="v">1:2</td>
<td>Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.</td>
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<td class="v">1:3</td>
<td>What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?</td>
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<td class="v">1:4</td>
<td>One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.</td>
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<td class="v">1:5</td>
<td>The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.</td>
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<td class="v">1:6</td>
<td>The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.</td>
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<td class="v">1:7</td>
<td>All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.</td>
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<td class="v">1:8</td>
<td>All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.</td>
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<td class="v">1:9</td>
<td>The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.</td>
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<td class="v">1:10</td>
<td>Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.</td>
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<td class="v">1:11</td>
<td>There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.</td>
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<td class="v">1:12</td>
<td>I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.</td>
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<td class="v">1:13</td>
<td>And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.</td>
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<td class="v">1:14</td>
<td>I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.</td>
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<td class="v">1:15</td>
<td>That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.</td>
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<td class="v">1:16</td>
<td>I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.</td>
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<td class="v">1:17</td>
<td>And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.</td>
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<td class="v">1:18</td>
<td>For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.</td>
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